Ernie Kovacs - "Mack the Knife" without O-scope / Blackout Ending with The Nairobi Trio

[From "Kovacs Corner" on YouTube.com] - In one of his last scheduled "specials', this is a classic Kovacs endings which wraps around various comedy blackouts. Kovacs' "Mack the Knife" sequence was usually accompanied with an oscilloscope's waveform display of the song. Apparently in this episode Ernie was pressed for time and needed to forego those clips. "Mack the Knife" was composed in 1928 by Kurt Weill for his then wife Lotte Lenya, the late Austrian cabaret singer, stage, and film actress . (For those who don't recall, she was the female villain in the second Bond film "From Russia with Love" who tried to kill Sir James with the pointed dagger that popped out from her shoe). Ernie's regulars included Jolene Brand, Bobby Lauher, and Joe Mikolas. Ernie's theme song is, of course, the recording of "Oriental Blues" by Robert Maxwell. The Nairobi Trio end the show with their rendition of the tune "Solfeggio".